Occult Disney 29: The Sad and Tragic Source of Beauty and the Beast (and the Golden Bough)

Paranoid American

Beauty and the Beast was peak Disney renaissance, and a commercial success. As with many previous Disney animations, the studio deviated far from the original script, in some cases changing the core dynamics of the story. This is a perfect example, as Belle's father is reduced to a mediocre engineer (in the original story he was a king). We also get into the dark origins of the inspiration of Beauty and the Beast: a link to an older time when arranged marriages were the norm and many young brides would see their assigned husbands as older and hairier "beasts".

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